Magnesium in joint health and osteoarthritis

Kuang X, Chiou J, Lo K, Wen C · Nutrition Research

Collects the epidemiology and the mechanism together: magnesium is a cofactor in cartilage matrix synthesis and in the inflammatory signalling implicated in OA, and the human evidence is a set of intake-based cross-sectional associations with no interventional trial behind them.

Population

The magnesium and joint-health literature

Intervention

Dietary and supplemental magnesium

Comparator

Not applicable

Limitations

Narrative review; the intervention literature it calls for does not exist.